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Dec 17 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
y'all I updated my royalty dashboard for #InTheWatchfulCity and... would you look at that. selling my paperback directly is now earning me more royalties than what I am getting through tordotcom 🥲 Direct sales surpassing Tor...
explore the dashboard: s.qiouyi.lu/royalties/in-t…
cc @BoundGalaxy!! updated dashboard with some new info!
I really can't believe it... when I embarked on this experiment, I knew it would theoretically be possible to break even on my audiobook and make a more robust stream from direct sales than from big 5 publisher royalties, I just... didn't expect it to happen!! and in <1.5 years!!
quite honestly I haven't even put much into marketing other than yelling a lot on twitter, imagine if I had the energy to do bigger marketing campaigns
based on this data I am going to probably place an order for 5 more copies of #InTheWatchfulCity to restock my shop with as a reasonable amount of inventory to have on hand, but if there are more than 5 of you interested in buying a copy, speak up now 👀👀👀
as the book ages I think I'll make the direct sales more special too, include little extras or artwork or something to keep incentivizing people to buy direct from me, I love having one foot in the art world bc I see so much cool stuff artists do and want more from publishing!!

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"yes mama and baba, that is exactly the problem I am addressing."
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you cannot possibly work with numbers and calculate livable wages if you have no data to begin with
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